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Richard E. Carpenter: Doonesbury repeats were still relevant

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08/10/2014 01:00:00 AM MDT

I was disappointed in your decision to discontinue Doonesbury. You stated that “...a comic so tied to current social and political events (loses) timeliness.” As a collector of Mr. Trudeau's work, I am able to read his work as far back as the 1970s. I note that in those decades of the past, Doonesbury dealt with political scandals (Watergate), Wall Street fraud (E.F. Hutton), inane wars (Grenada), religious quackery (Oral Roberts death watch), abortion, homelessness, and a host of other problems. Please note that we Americans still deal with most of those problems today — only with different examples.

And perhaps the reason we do is that we have forgotten the past. Past Doonesbury comic strips might be a reminder that we still have those same problems that we need to resolve.

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